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Palmerton Natural Trustee Council seeks to restore area forests and waterways 4/22/2004 PCCE Meets; soil sampling efforts updated 4/16/2004 Seeding of Blue Mountain to start - 4/16/04 HORSEHEADS EMISSION LEVELS RAISED 3/2/2004 Horsehead IndustriesSale Approved 11/26/03 Public notice of October 7, 2003 DEP hearing Palmerton Gathering: Environmental Concerns Addressed 8/22/2003 Horsehead Permit will help with production 4/24/2003 Region
3: Mid-Atlantic Region Hazardous Site Cleanup Division - Palmerton Zinc Site EPA Environmental News - EPA PROTECTS HOMEOWNERS FROM LAWSUITS IN PALMERTON, PA EPA Orders cleanup to continue, HRD "looking into government activities at the smelter during WWII" EPA Solving Lead Problems in Palmerton - June 19, 1998 (an EPA response to a Times News article) USEPA Press Release-Soil Sampling 2003 Aquashicola Creek flood control project Department of Justice news release - Horsehead Settles Environmental Violations - August 24, 1995 Public
Health Assessment "Carbon County Federal Superfund Site Program NewsClips" ******************************************************** Invited by the CITIZENS ADVISORY COUNCIL, on behalf of PCCE, President Louise Calvin gave testimony at their 2000 REGIONAL MEETING AND FIELD TRIP ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
******************************************************** As reported in our Winter 2003 Clean Up Times newsletter, in 1991 the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Army Crops of Engineers, and Zinc Corporation of America began the restoration of Blue Mountain. The remedial process provided an application of a sludge and fly ash mixture to the slopes of the mountain with grass and tree seedlings in order to form a vegetative cover. Read the article entitled "An Ill Wind", which appeared in the University of Georgia's October 2002 issue of Columns , which discusses the health hazards associated with sewage sludge applied to land.
Ecologia newsletter article, January 1990: Reclaiming Blue Mountain: The Greening of a "Biological Desert" in Palmerton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
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